Then “Saturday Night Live” devoted a sketch to how they imagined Smollett’s meetings with Fox executives are going these days.

And it’s not flattering.

In the sketch, Smollett (played by Chris Redd) is two hours late to the meeting, as his manager (host Sandra Oh) makes excuses and Fox execs (Kate McKinnon, Mikey Day) and “Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels (Kenan Thompson) get more annoyed by the second.

“Jussie Smollett was a victim!” insists Oh.

“Oh, please,” retorts McKinnon.

Then Redd walks in wearing a red MAGA hat.

“Guys, you are not going to believe what just happened to me,” Redd says. “I got attacked again!” He promptly digs through a shopping bag that holds Crest White Strips, the letters KKK, and a Teletubby. “The killer left me a bunch of clues!”

“What killer?” asks an exasperated McKinnon.

“You’re still alive, Jussie,” retorted another exec, played by Day.

“Only because I fought back, because I’m the gay Mike Tyson,” insists Redd.